by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Her medical nightmare started during the summer of 2008 when she was just 39 and began having terrifying heart attack symptoms. It took well over two years for this mother of three from upstate New York to finally hear a correct diagnosis. Put on your diagnostician’s cap today and consider the chilling account of her experience, told in her own words over five months. Continue reading “It wasn’t heart disease – but what was it?”
“If I eat fish and do the crossword every day,” sings Pam Peterson, “Will those brain cells grow again?” Any woman of a certain age will laugh knowingly along with Pam in this hilarious “Memories” spoof. Pam, a fitness trainer and award-winning cabaret singer in Chicago, shines a wacky light at the problems some of us seem to have while watching our once-sharp memories evaporate. Do your heart some good and listen to Pam’s lovely voice and hilarious message.
Then – if you can remember! – forward this on to your friends.
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When I gently scolded Kentucky cardiologist Dr. John Mandrola recently over his cheeky criticism of diet soda (he’s a bike racer, what can I say?), we began a subsequent exchange of emails that led me to his blog. There I found the simplest, clearest explanation of heart disease that I have yet discovered – particularly on the role that inflammation plays in causing our cardiac events. With the permission of this cardiac electrophysiologist (thanks, Dr. John), I’m reprinting his essay here, including his Primary Prevention Strategies, or “what regular people call healthy living”: Continue reading “Do you know what causes heart disease?”
Here’s a news flash from the Prepared Patient forum of the Center For Advancing Health: your doctor is not a mind reader. And how you describe your symptoms can be just as important as what you describe. Physicians – and experienced heart patients – say you must be as detailed and descriptive as possible. For example: Continue reading “How to communicate your heart symptoms to your doctor”
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